I have uploaded the Frantic 2 soundtrack here:
The soundtrack was created by Felix Studio.
There are 2 varient songs in the rar that were not included in the game. One was meant for the menu theme and the other is a longer version of the main theme.
Enjoy 
Ive come across a huge flaw in the design of the Frantic 2 code. Im working on fixing it but from my estimates, and running lots of tests, Im pretty sure Im going to have to re-code the whole ‘core’ of the game. The problem doesnt stop the game from working or cause any major crashes or anything, but its big enough to warrant scrapping everything Ive done so far.
Ive done a lot of research and its a problem that is pretty obscure to spot, and will only occur 5-20 minutes into gameplay at random. I know how to fix it, but the effort I would put into fixing it would be little less than starting from scratch, what Ive learnt from making Frantic 2 will no doubt improve any systems I write in the revised version. I also have a plan for making the game run alot more smoothly, allowing me to add more silly effects, enemies and bullets.
Its not all as bad as it seems, most of the work in Frantic 2 so far has been in the design and tweaking of the subtle mechanics, creating and putting the graphics into the game, creating the menus, and a bunch of other things I can simply drag and drop into the new version. Not to mention I have a set of working level editors built into the game.
Hopfully it wont be too big of a delay for the sequel, as Ive got most of the games logic fresh in my mind and should easily be able to re-code it. I dont want to release a ‘broken’ or less than perfect game. Ill post an update when Ive made more progress.
Frantic 2 is now deep into development so I thought Ide give a quick update and detail some features. Ill stick some screenshots up in the near future to show how its coming along.
The new weapons in Frantic 2 will include:
Primary:
Shuriken - Focused quick firing large projectiles, that travel through enemies on hit, so you can line your enemies up for more efficient shots.
Classic - A classic spread weapon, similar to Frantic 1, only a little more damaging and well balanced.
Wave - Bullets that move in a wave motion, the wave becomes more focused when the weapon is upgraded.
Curving - Bullets that curve off to the sides as you move, pretty much a novelty weapon but quite powerful.
Flame thrower - A close range heavily damaging weapon. Looks cool too
The 5 primary weapons each have 3 statistics that can level up 10 times, these are bullet movment speed, rate of fire and ’spread’ which alters the weapon depending on its type, for example spread gives the shuriken bullets more ‘health’ before they are destroyed. The maximum level will be limited by the level of card for that specific weapon. So a level 1 card will only allow 6 upgrades (2,2,2) and at level 4 (8,8,8) = 24.
The Wingmen:
Rocket, Laser, Ray, Electric and Targeted. I wont go into details about these, but they are fun I promise. Each wingman will have 5 levels, each level will alter the weapons behavour so it dishes out more damage.
There are 5 ships balanced for Speed, Armour and Initial weapon, each ship also has its own unique ‘bomb’ attack. Including the beam from the first game, I couldnt remove it lol. The others include a massive rocket attack, an allied ‘boss’ ship, a meteor shower and a black hole.
The addrenaline bar is also different, it now has 2 ‘tiers’ its basically like 2 addrenaline bars stacked on top of one another, with 3 attacks each, so if you save up to 4 bars you can do the bomb attack followed by a sheild powerup right afterwards. The ‘bombs’ are very brief and pretty much just clear the screen and give you a quick break from dodging if things get hard. The other addrenaline attacks are a temporary sheild like the origional game, it just absorbs health. And slow motion, which I origioanlly took out of Frantic 1, but that was before I made the boss bullets curtains. Its fun to go from slow to fast motion during one of those lol.
Ive also added a ‘tension bar’ this goes down naturally over time, but doing stunts fills it up, once its full your mutiplier goes up by 1. You can scrape bullets, get close ranged kills and combos to increase the bar. This completly changes the scoring mechanics of the game, I think its alot more ‘focused’ now, not just a matter of using the money shield in combination with not getting hit, and just generally killing everything - killing a specific enemy early might actually decrease the scoring potential. Also there is a bit of punishment for using the bombs. The addrenaline rises pretty quickly, but once its full all addrenaline is converted into points.
There is 15 ‘other’ cards that just give random little bonuses and power ups. Im not 100% on what they will be yet, I have 15 planned but Ill probably replace a few as I think they might ruin the delicate scoring mechanics.
The enemies are alot more complex now, they can fire bullet patterns that are actually as impressive as the boss patterns. Also there will be 10 ‘unique’ enemies, I might scrap a couple of them if they arnt fun to blow up.
Im still undecided on how the bosses will work, I have tons of ideas, so far I think the best thing is to have a boss that you can tear apart pixel by pixel. Within limits obviously lol.
Argh this is ‘quick update’ is getting a bit long, Ill leave it there. Ill get some screenshots up once the enemies are in and I can give a proper preview.
Im currently in the process of creating Frantic 2. I also have a few vague plans for different types of games.Frantic 2 should be quite different to the origional, with Frantic 1 I was quite lazy, cut corners and rushed things a bit near the end. So hopfully I can make Frantic 2 what I origionally intended for and better. Ive had sooooo much possitive feedback from all over, in fact barley any of the feedback is negative, which is suprising for the internet. So ill take all the feedback and critizism and make a giant list of stuff to make!
Erm… one feature I might possibly add to Frantic 2 is an episode system, each week a new episode of levels and possibly storyline, dialogue and content will be added to a server, which will update inside the game. So in the long run ill be able to make TONS of new stuff. Ive had no experience with PHP or MYSQL so that should be interesting. Also Im working on tools to make editing levels etc for the game much faster and more controlled. So I dont have to sit for hours altering numbers - not fun.
I decided to get a blog.. wooo.
